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ExxonMobil Adds to Exceed XP Portfolio

(Flexpack)

October 30, 2016, New performance polymers targeting food lamination and soft-shrink flexible packaging markets are said to offer extreme film performance HOUSTON, TX | ExxonMobil is expanding its Exceed XP portfolio ...

Sticking With It | What Is the Value of Technical Meetings?

(Sticking With It)

October 25, 2016, ... focused on flexible packaging and vacuum coating. There is also a joint new technology session that covers a variety of topics. At this meeting, the topics included papers related to barrier coating in ...

Uflex Offering Downgauged Film

(Flexpack)

October 24, 2016, FLEXALOXPROTECT F-PGX PET ALOx specialty film is said to offer lightweighting as well as barrier and transparency NOIDA, INDIA | Uflex, flexible packaging materials and solutions company, reports the ...

Ampac Has New Anti-Fog Technology

(Coating/Laminating)

October 23, 2016, The new coating technology is said to add transparency to fresh produce packaging and improve efficiencies on f/f/s lines CINCINNATI, OH | Ampac, a division of ProAmpac, has engineered what it says ...

TLMI Awards | Multi-Color Takes 2016 Best of Show

(Label/Tape)

October 19, 2016, ... printing and to recognize technical achievement in all areas of the narrow web industry, including tags and labels, cartons, flexible packaging, non-woven pressure-sensitives, and more. Entries are judged ...

FPA Hails Fall Conference as a Success

(Flexpack)

October 13, 2016, The event covered not only issues relating to flexible packaging but politics and economics as well ANNAPOLIS, MD | The Flexible Packaging Association reports that its 2016 Fall Executive Conference ...

RKW Adds Flexo Press with Many Benefits

(Bag Pouch)

October 04, 2016, ... high quality printing images—especially for the self-venting ProVent plastic bag and other industrial bag solutions. The ProVent plastic bag, described as a polymer-based alternative to paper packaging ...

Innovia’s Wrap Rage Solution

(Flexpack)

October 04, 2016, Propafilm™ RCP is now available in 52 and 60 microns. This easy-to-open food packaging film now includes heavy duty, high barrier and snap wrap options ATLANTA, GA | Innovia Films is expanding its ...

Filmquest Launches Logistics Center

(Flexpack)

October 04, 2016, The 20,000-sq-ft center will offer quick-ship technology to PET supplier’s customers BOLINGBROOK, IL | Filmquest Group, an international merchant converter and value-added provider of packaging films, ...

Catbridge Offers Details of New Slitter/Rewinder

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2016, ... Slitter/Rewinder System (900-M). The American-made 900-M duplex center winder, designed for the flexible packaging industry, is said to offer numerous productivity features, a choice of configurations, ...

Show Preview | Pack Expo Intl. 2016 Largest Show To-Date

(Trends/Management)

October 02, 2016, ... Back” initiative. Sponsored by DuPont Packaging and Rockwell Automation, the event benefits No Greater Sacrifice (NGS), an organization dedicated to providing support to the children of our nation’s fallen ...

Show Preview | K 2016 To Reveal How Plastics Shape the Future

(Trends/Management)

September 21, 2016, ... foil, and a maximum roll weight of 1800 kg (4,000 lb). Ideal for aluminum foil webs ranging from 6–20 µm and PE films from 30–100 µm. Can be used as primary unwind for flexible packaging lines that process ...

Dow Corning Launches Series of PSAs

(Coating/Laminating)

September 18, 2016, ... manager, Packaging at Dow Corning. “Emerging electronics trends—such as new curved-edge screen designs and more-sensitive touch-screen technologies—require new types of protection, making it even more ...

Sun Chemical Partners with ACPO

(Coating/Laminating)

August 21, 2016, ... films, to meet the demand of brand owners and flexible packaging converters for high-barrier transparent packaging. Sun will supply its SunBar oxygen barrier coatings to ACPO to coat and supply various ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2016 Offers Technology in Action

(Label/Tape)

August 08, 2016, ... converters—from skilling up the workforce to diversifying into niche packaging. "As usual there is a strong mix of panel discussions, technical presentations, and practical case studies highlighting actual ...

Toray Selected for HP Indigo Pack Ready Program

(Flexpack)

August 07, 2016, ... the demands of the flexible packaging and label markets. Company brings to the HP Indigo Pack Ready digital ecosystem a film portfolio comprising Lumirror PA66 PET film and Torayfan FMS and F62W OPP. ...

Updates from TAPPI, SPI & the Industry

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

August 01, 2016, ... nanolayers reduce by 50% the amount of polyamide needed to achieve the desired level of oxygen and moisture permeability in food packaging films. A line is being prepared for shipment as of this writing, ...

X-Rite Adds to Color Measurement Line

(News | New Products)

July 24, 2016, The eXact Xp is said to help packaging converters accurately measure color and eliminate measurement variations on a variety of flexible films GRAND RAPIDS, MI | X-Rite, a global supplier of color ...

Innovia Focusing on BOPP Business

(Flexpack)

July 24, 2016, Company says it will now concentrate on high-performance advanced polymer solutions for labels, packaging, tobacco, and security films ATLANTA, GA | Innovia reports that following the sale of its cellulose ...

AWA Summarizes Release Liner Event

(Label/Tape)

July 24, 2016, ... release liner recycling. FINAT Recycling Project Manager Mark Macaré told participants that a number of EU member states have already classified spent release liner as packaging waste as opposed to process ...